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The Addams Family  Volume One If The Munsters was a traditional family sitcom as reimagined by Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, The Addams Family is a macabre twist on Father Knows Best. The Munster and Addams clans made their TV debuts in 1964 and lasted two seasons before the networks buried them. The Addamses are now gloriously resurrected in this three-disc set that digs up the series' first 22 episodes (oddly, 12 shy of the complete first season). Inspired by Charles Addams's New Yorker cartoons, The Addams Family is fiendishly funny, with a dead-on cast that indelibly embodies Addams's characters. John Astin brings a demented glee to eccentric, frighteningly wealthy Gomez Addams. Carolyn Jones is bewitching as his pre-goth wife, Morticia, whom the Beatles might have had in mind when they sang, "Baby's in Black." Jackie Coogan is the electrifying Uncle Fester, with Ted Cassidy (who famously took a kick in the groin from Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) is the monstrous butler Lurch, whose "You rang?" entered the pop culture lexicon.

The Munsters was family friendly. The Addams Family is more sophisticated and wickedly funny. As Gomez notes at one point, "There's a touch of madness" in the Addams household, where "every day is Halloween." Bear rugs growl, a disembodied hand, Thing, delivers the mail, and a torture rack is good for what ails you. The children, Wednesday (Lisa Loring) and older brother Pugsley (Ken Weatherwax), enjoy such hobbies as playing autopsy or exploding model trains. Gomez and Morticia were one of television's most passionate couples, with Gomez being driven to arm-kissing ecstasy whenever Morticia spoke French. The last episode included in this collection, "Amnesia in the Addams Family," is a classic in which Gomez is rendered "normal" following a conk on the head. The look of disgust on Morticia and Lurch's face when he asks for a glass of milk is priceless. The "altogether ooky" extras include three episode commentaries, a featurette on Charles Addams, reminiscences from cast members Astin, Loring, and Weatherwax, a segment on the creation of the classic snap-snap theme song ("They're creepy and they're kooky...."), and the inevitable theme song sing-along. The Addams Family at last on DVD? As Gomez might exclaim: "Capital!" --Donald Liebenson

The Addams Family  Volume Two Based on the original Goth cartoons by Charles "Chas" Addams that ran for decades in the New Yorker magazine, The Addams Family television sitcom portrayed a monster family whose moribund physical appearances were counteracted by each family member's exuberance for passion and adventure. This Volume Two DVD contains twenty-one episodes, including the last of season one and the whole of season two, plus commentaries, and a featurette about the cinematic impact The Addams Family had on American television culture. Premiering the same year as The Munsters, this short-lived series was one of the first two shows to take issue with the Leave It To Beaver aesthetic that dominated television throughout the 50s, in which perfect families narrowly defined normality in the American home. Instead, it starred a family feared by neighbors, who within the boundaries of their haunted Victorian mansion invented their own thriving, not to mention fun, culture. The Addams Family proved that outsiders could be extremely gracious, educated, and interesting, even if eccentricities rendered their looks a threat.

These episodes include the original cast: Gomez (John Astin) and Morticia (Carolyn Jones), Uncle Fester (Jackie Coogan), the two children Wednesday and Pugley, butler Lurch, hairy Cousin Itt, and the enigmatic hand, Thing, who plays castanets for the married couples' cha cha parties, and looks up things in phone books. Macabre humor in each episode reverses average, expected logic. Flower arranging, for Morticia, involves de-budding and stripping roses of all but the thorns. In "Morticia, The Sculptress," Gomez bribes a local art dealer to buy Morticia's hideous art at the Addams Family's own expense, revealing Gomez to be a strange but loving husband. In most episodes, such as "Lurch, The Teenage Idol" and "Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor," The Addams' aim to help their loved ones succeed, in these cases Lurch, as a harpsichord-playing pop star, and Itt, on a career search for an unintelligible, hair-covered little person. The Addams Family house interior still looks exquisite forty years later, full of taxidermied animals, antique furniture, carnivorous plants, and medieval charm. One watches this show not only for its sets and costumes, but also for its refreshingly wide take on what successful families can look like. --Trinie Dalton

The Addams Family  Volume Three Product description: The Addams Family is not your typical family: they take delight in most of the things that "normal" people would be terrified of. Relive the misadventures of Americas favorite frightfully funny family.

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It's great to have the complete series of "The Addams Family" in one box set. Despite the fact that they're kooky, spooky, and all together ooky, the Addams was a very functional and loving family. The cast was uniformly superb. Gomez Addams (John Astin) and his wife Morticia (Carolyn Jones) were passionately in love. Their displays of affection were somewhat shocking for a 1960's TV series, but are tame by today's standards. Jackie Coogan was a consummate professional as Uncle Fester, infusing his character with a Curly Howard quality. Ted Cassidy showed a real flair for comedy as Lurch, especially in the episodes "Lurch Learns To Dance," "Lurch, The Teenage Idol," "Lurch's Little Helper," and "Lurch's Grand Romance."

In addition, the DVD includes hilarious audio commentaries by Cousin Itt and Thing for select scenes, which contain captions for better comprehension. Speaking of audio commentaries, you haven't lived until you've heard "The Addams Family" in French and Spanish! The one complaint I have is the fact that the episodes are on double-sided discs. This makes them easier to get scratched or otherwise damaged. In fact, the first box set I bought included defective DVDs, and had to be exchanged. Fortunately, all of the discs in the replacement box set played perfectly. Despite all that, fans of "The Addams Family" should not hesitate to buy this box set.

Excellent ! I have been having a blast going through old TV shows . This to me is one of the best !! My complaint is it comes in 3 volumes 3 disks per volume . The disks are double sided disks . The only labEl is a very thin strip around the DVD mounting hole . That is very tiny silver letters on white background. I have visual problems and I can only read it with extreme magnification .

Some shows are not as enjoyable as you remember them from childhood--I'm happy to say that "The Addams Family" is even better than I recalled! The humor stands up to the test ot time, even excells. And, unlike "The Munsters" show, the comedy does not involve mocking the father or any other family member. Instead, there is a great deal of love demonstrated in the family. Further, Morticia and Gomez display passion and devotion to each other, not viewed in other shows of that television era.

The show was filmed in black-and-white, but the picture and sound are very clear on the DVDs. Production evidently tried to conserve money on the show by occasionally reusing a bit of film--for example, phone calls to Dr. Mbongo--and by using only a limited number of sets, but neither is overdone or detracts from the show. Some gags were repeated--strangers' reaction to Lurch, Fester lighting up a lightbulb in his mouth--but the show was careful not to over-rely on these for the comedy.

I dislike that the DVDs are double-sided; I wish manufacturers did not do this. Fortunately, the box packaging is sturdy and protects them well. I am delighted the receive the complete series, unedited.

It goes without saying that the original Addams Family series is a classic. The off-center humor, the gleeful grimness of the Addams clan, and the bewildered reactions of the "normals" all make this a delightful show to revisit.

The series only ran two seasons, but the episodes are divided into three volumes for this set. However, it's worth remembering that in the mid-sixties a season was 30+ episodes so there's plenty of entertainment to be had.

The discs are double-sided so you need to be careful in handling them, but they all worked great for me. I'm enjoying the show very much!

one of the greatest shows of the 60s (or anytime) based on the dark cartoon drawings of Charles Addams. the family is twisted & macabre yet one of the closest, loving families ever portrayed in a sitcom

The video transfer quality is excellent as is the audio. I was tempted to knock off a star because it does include the canned laughter which is sadly so pervasive in sitcoms, but there is no reason to expect that to be removed. I play these on an upconverting Blu-Ray player and even at 4K there is minimal graininess. This series comes on 9 double sided DVDs, 3 per season, which does help to save costs, though it does encourage scratches since there is no label, but they are packaged well so there is little chance of the disks coming loose in shipping.

Let me take you back , cause I'm going to...The Addams Family still is full of great characters, .acting and mostly likeable.Many things don't hold up over decades this is a rare exception.If you like me saw this as kid you will.love it , if you have nevery seen it, take a.chance.Go back to time when funny was silly .